Look back on the pair's history-making romance depicted in Season 5 of The Crown.
The forbidden romance between Princess Margaret and Captain Peter Wooldridge Peter Townsend was revisited in its final chapters throughout the fifth season ofIn 1947, Margaret—the daughter of King George VI and the Queen Mother and younger sister to Queen Elizabeth II—first met and fell in love with Townsend, a Royal Air Force Pilot and soon-to-be divorcee 15 years her senior who served as an equerry for the king.
Ahead, see the historical overview of Margaret and Townsend's tempestuous love story, from its sweet beginnings to its heartbreaking end.A married Townsend meets then-teenager Margaret for the first time while accompanying the royal family on a three-month tour to South Africa. His duty was to protect the princess throughout the trip, so the two spent a lot of time together.
Due to amendments made preemptively by the queen and the Parliament in the Royal Marriages Act in light of Margaret and Townsend's potential marriage, Margaret would now be exempt from the church of England's rules prohibiting a marriage with a divorcee insofar as she is removed from the line of succession, of which she stood third behind nephew Prince Charles and niece Princess Anne.
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